Hey, thanks for taking my question. I wanted to just double click on aerospace supply chain, if you don't mind. Obviously it's humming for you guys. There are other players out there that have been struggling a bit. Do you feel like you guys are doing something special, obviously executing well, but special or perhaps the issues that we're seeing elsewhere are idiosyncratic to those companies?
Yeah, I can't speak to the situation at some of these other companies. I could tell you that for the major components, Gulfstream has a very relationship really given into our production. They're able to keep up now, and our expectation is they will be in the future as well. So I don't know what the others are seeing, but we're pretty tightly integrated with these. They're keeping up.
And, you know, their ability to, the supply chain's ability to continue to produce and produce on schedule has been very helpful in ensuring that we can continue to drive our orders. And orders were, of course, a big component of our, a significant component of our cash for this quarter. So it's really a team effort between Gulfstream and its suppliers.
Excellent. And if I could just ask, follow up earlier, Ron, Phoebe asked about the outlook for defense. And you mentioned the resiliency in the portfolio. I just wanted to re-ask that. But with a focus on the technologies portfolio specifically, maybe you can speak a bit about the sensitivity of that portfolio to extended CRs or alternatively to the upside, you know, a budget environment that's more in the direction of Trump's request.
So we have handled in the technologies group, which are both fairly relative to our portfolio writ large, faster cycle businesses. We've managed the CRs pretty well, so I would expect it to be able to do so as long as they're not too extended. I think both businesses are poised for some growth, particularly Mission Systems, as you recall, has gone through a transformation from a lot of legacy systems into investments in new programs and new products, and that is beginning to take off. So we've continued to see continued strong growth there and the steady growth that we have seen, steady incremental growth we have seen at GDIT. And look, they've got a pretty robust pipeline at about 120 plus billion. That's a qualified pipeline out there. so that positions them well to continue to perform across their hundreds of programs, that's both for mission systems and GDIT, and it's all about your ability to meet your customer's needs quickly and with excellent products and quality and time.
All right. Thank you for the thoughts.
Great. Well, thank you, everyone, for joining our call today. As a reminder, please refer to the General Dynamics website for the second quarter earnings release and highlights presentation. Finally, we want to let you know that we expect to hold our Q3 earnings call on Friday, October 30th at 9 a.m. We will resume our normal schedule for the fourth quarter call. If you have additional questions, I can be reached at 703-876-3152.
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